Purple Haze

The jacarandas are blooming late this year, so I was enveloped in a cloud of purple for my birthday, which was last Tuesday. Today, I'm eating my last piece of ube birthday cake, which is also purple, and I'm enjoying every delicious bite. To make things more festive, I donned my trippy daisy/houndstooth shirtwaist dress.

"As the daisy is rising, the houndstooth peels away..." [intoned through a mic with lots of reverb]

The dress can no longer be worn out in public -- too many random holes (perhaps nylon DOES disintegrate!). It's a treasure that I picked up from Larry, back in the 90s. I'm thinking its vintage is late 60s?
The cake, which Severo got me hooked on, is a Filipino concoction from Red Ribbon Bakery. Ube is purple yam, better known as taro. The cake also has macapuno (baby coconut) and is topped with Asian-style whipped cream frosting.

I will now float over to Patti's Visible Monday. Wanna join me?
Patti is celebrating her 100th Visible Monday post. What a grand achievement!

Foot Fetish Friday: Fluevog Ad

I found this while looking for something else (I ALWAYS find something interesting when I look for something else).
It was in a box of old magazine swipe*. I'd say it's from Details from the late 80s.

you can click on this to see it even bigger!

*Designer technical term for inspirational things torn out of magazines. From the olden days before Pinterest.

I'm sure you Fluevog experts can pinpoint the exact collection and date.
Please share your arcane knowledge in the comments!

In the Mix

CREATED/ PURCHASED/ GIFTED/ LINKS

tee - plumpynuts x Uniqlo
tunic - I designed and sewed it
socks - Happy Socks (same dot, different style)
shoes - White Mountain (gift from Leslie)

I ordered this tee on a whim. It's a plumpynuts x Uniqlo colab and only $19.90. I ordered a medium (I think large was sold out) and you can see it's very roomy! I think I'd even fit in a small. Yesterday I swanned around with it over my cityscape tunic and was very comfortable. It's an odd, deconstructed styling -- it's giving me some ideas for the scads of stripe sample yardage I've dragged home from work.

I'd never heard of plumpynuts before, but they do some cool designs. Here's the blurb about them from Uniqlo: After building their careers as designers at foundation addict from 2005 to 2008, Miyuki Omichi and Ayumi Kita started a new brand, plumpynuts, and opened their own boutique, SHOW CASE by plumpynuts, in Tokyo's jingumae area in 2009. In 2011, plumpynuts organized a first fashion show in VERSUS TOKYO, an industory event produced by Yuichi Yoshii. The plumpynuts brand specializes in high-quality, coquettish, and playful designs for women.
Here's their link.